A New Method for Segmentation of Images Represented in a HSV Color Space

This paper presents an original low-level system for color image segmentation considering the Hue-Saturation-Value (HSV) color space. Many difficulties of color image segmentation may be resolved using the correct color space in order to increase the effectiveness of color components to discriminate color data. The technique proposed in the article uses new data structures that lead to simpler and more efficient segmentation algorithms. We introduce a flexible hexagonal network structure on the pixels image and we extract for each segmented region the syntactic features that can be used in the shape recognition process. Our technique has a time complexity lower than the methods studied from specialized literature and the experimental results on Berkeley Segmentation Dataset color image database show that the performance of method is robust.

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